| HERNAN BAS |
Miami-born Hernan Bas graduated from New World School of the
Arts in Miami in 1995. Almost overnight, his work met with
national and international acclaim, and was included in Triumph
of Painting III at the Saatchi Gallery, London; Ideal Worlds: New
Romanticism in Contemporary Art at the Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt; and in the 2004 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York. Bas’s work has been acquired by The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North
Miami, which mounted a solo exhibition of his pictures in 2002,
It’s Super Natural. In 2007, Bas was featured in a solo show at The
Rubell Family Collection in Miami.
Typically small in scale, Bas’s pictures depict slender adolescent
boys in settings inspired by classical and popular fiction and film.
Dandies, waifs, adventurers and loners populate his mysterious,
psychologically-charged narratives, which seem to take place at
an indeterminate place and time. Fluidly painted and rigorously
composed, Bas’s pictures are infused with a sense of longing
and dreamlike romanticism as they capture the isolation, emerging
sensuality and emotional flux of adolescence.
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